Word: jacobses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime requisite of a fireman is the ability to think fast in an emergency. Last week, the firemen of Boise, Idaho did so. Roused a few minutes after 3 a.m. by a newsboy who had noticed a pile of straw burning in a corral, firemen raced to the scene, found...
Exact boundary of Boise is the centre of Reserve Street. From engines and a pump wagon, parked on the city's side of the street, the firemen called out advice to scores of non-professional fire fighters who were doing their best to fight the growing conflagration on the...
In the women's singles Defending Champion Alice Marble faced a domestic field headed by Helen Jacobs, whom she rudely upset last year. But she too was expected to find her chief difficulty with the foreign field, most notably with Chile's Anita Lizana and Poland's...
For one set it looked as though some one else would have to do the clinching. Miss Hardwick hit the ball harder than Miss Jacobs. She had also an excellent backhand but a bad tendency to wait for a dropping ball on her forehand. She kept Miss Jacobs so busy...
After that the young ladies relaxed and began to have a good time. Kay Stammers, most graceful of lefthanders, played a slam-bang game as though she were tossing off an easy victory, but lost to Miss Marble, 6-3, 6-1. In the same sort of match, twinkle-toed...